Posted on 07/09/2010 9:45:36 AM PDT by In Bold Colors
In a 1951 science fiction story called The Marching Morons, Cyril M. Kornbluth describes a future in which centuries of breeding and popular culture have resulted in a society where practically nobody is actually smart enough to tie his own shoes, but pracitcally everybody drives around at three hundred miles an hour in a car that looks and sounds like a rocketship and holds a doctorate or a "post-doc" credential in some important sounding subject. As the story unfolds, the reader learns that, though the cars make......
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Also read “The Sons of Martha” by Rudyard Kipling.
Or watch the movie, “Idiocracy”.
It has given me a new term for my vocabulary...
"Baby Bird People"
See also “Harrison Bergeron” by Vonnegut....
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